Maniac Mansion

Bernard Bernoulli is a fictional character in the Maniac Mansion series of adventure game. He is a stereotypical nerd and has the usual nerd look of... glasses, a dress shirt, gray slacks pulled way over his navel, and a bow tie. Bernard is one of several playable characters in Maniac Mansion and appears as the main protagonist in Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. Main article: Maniac Mansion Bernard made his first appearance in Maniac Mansion where he was one of the 7 playable characters within the game. He has the ability to dismantle complex electronics. However, he has a fear of Green Tentacle until someone makes friends with him. When Sandy, a cheerleader is kidnapped by the distant and somewhat crazy scientist Dr. Fred Edison, Sandy's boyfriend Dave gathers all his friends to mount a rescue attempt, Bernard is one of those who answers the call though he nearly runs away once arriving at the mansion, only coming back when Dave reminds him that Sandy is in danger.
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Ron Gilbert is an American computer game designer, programmer, and producer, best known for his work on several classic LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games. Gilbert was also co-founder of Humongous Entertainment and its sister company Cavedog Entertainment. His games are generally focused on interactive storytelling. Additionally, Ron founded Hulabee Entertainment with Shelley Day after... leaving Humongous Entertainment. He was Creative Director at Vancouver-based Hothead Games development studio. He is currently working at Double Fine Productions, with former LucasArts writer/programmer/designer Tim Schafer. Ron Gilbert was born in La Grande, Oregon, United States in January 1964, as the son of David E. Gilbert, a physics professor and former president of Eastern Oregon University . He became interested in games when he was 13 years old thanks to a Texas Instruments TI-59 programmable calculator his father used to bring home.
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LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s. Today, it publishes games primarily based on the Star Wars... and Indiana Jones franchises. The company was founded in May 1982 as the video game development group of Lucasfilm Limited, the film production company of George Lucas. Lucas wanted his company to branch out into other areas of entertainment, so he cooperated with Atari to produce video games. The first results of this collaboration were unique action games like Ballblazer in 1984, and Rescue on Fractalus!. Beta versions of both games were leaked to pirate bulletin boards exactly one week after Atari had received unprotected copies for a marketing review, and were in wide circulation months before the original release date. In 1984, they were released for the Atari 5200 under the Lucasfilm Games label. Versions for home computers were not released until 1985, by publisher Epyx. Lucasfilm's next two games were Koronis Rift and The Eidolon.
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